Monday, January 10, 2011

Welcome to the Hero Arts 2011 Hostesses Blog Hop! The Hero Arts 2011 blog hop is all week long, January 10th through Friday January 14th. Along the way you will see wonderful inspiration from the Hero Hostesses using the 2011 release!

I was so thrilled with my new Hero Arts stamps I had a hard time deciding which card I should share as part of the blog hop. I finally decided on this card because I loved the flowers on the Large Flower Pattern!

My second project is a sweet pendant that could be used for an accent on a package, a necklace or even a pin to hang on your lapel. The stamps used are from the With Sympathy CL476 set and Delicate Leaf Clusters CL477. Both of these sets were on my list as soon as I saw them.

Paint the flowers using chalks and a water brush and stamp on background.

Stamp sentiment using Versafine Majestic Blue.

Paint dragonflies using chalks and a water brush and stamp over background.

Fill frame with Glossy Accents.

Accent with flowers, gems, heart charm and ribbon.

Onto the important details:

If you arrived here from Lisa Carroll at My Little Ink Spot you are in the right place, I am the end of the blog hop for today. Tomorrow there are more wonderful artists on the blog hop and all you need to do is head over to the Hero Arts Blog and start hopping again. If you didn't come here from Lisa Carroll you should head over to the Hero Arts Blog today and start at the beginning of the hop!

Please leave a comment at every blog, because every comment left along the hop gives you a chance to win new Hero Arts 2011 stamps!

If you find a broken link, you can always go back to the Hero Arts blog for the master list of blog links. Also, please email tami@heroarts.com and provide the blog address that has the bad link so we can fix it. Thanks!

Oh Sue, stunning projects! The card is absolutely gorgeous and your colouring of the flowers is fantastic! Love the sparkly dragonflies with the pearls too! The pendant is so pretty! Love the colours and layering of stamps! Beautiful embellishing too!

Gorgeous card, Suzz! Wow! The color you've achieved on the flowers, by using black and red, is brilliant! Love the way they look against the beautiful gray background! And your pendant is fabulous! Love that you you split the sentiment and such wonderful layering! Awesome way to end the first day of the hop! :)

Wow I love the gray and red/pink color combo I will have to try that, guess I will need to get some watercolor pencils :-)Guess I HOP HOP AND HOPPED to the end for today, see yal HOPING around tomorrow.

Beautiful!! Luv Watercoloring and this is soo beautiful!! Luv the grey & pink combination too! :-) Also luv the colors & Design of the little charm! Now we are having Coooold snowy days, but these make smile, thinking of SPRING! :-)

Yay, I just bought the big floral block! I can't wait to get my copics on this one. Thanks for the colour inspiration! I also picked up the sympathy set. I didn't realize how versatile it is. Fantastic!

You are an amazing and truly talented artist! I am always so at lost for warods for your stunning and beautiful cards. I feel like I am in a museum looking at a wonderful famous painting when I lok at your cards. Such amazing detail!! Simply stunning!-L. Berry

Love how you have used the large flower background -- another way to use these type of stamps without trying to get an even coating of embossing. Now my dilemma is which flower background to get -- the cling or the wood block!

Suzanne, I am now officially in LOVE with dragonflies! Your first card looks like a work of art as opposed to a card! LOVE the colors! LOVE the dragonflies! FAB stamps! The second pendant is so delicate! LOVE how you stamped "I have you in my heart" on top f th other stamp set and the handpainted dragonflies are FAB! Your talent blows me away!

Suzanne, I tottally love how you water coloured the flowers on the first card! They look real, as do those dragonflies! What a neat idea with that pendant, so pretty with the text background and pale pink overlaid! Awesome work!

Lovely cards! A completely different style than the other cards on the hop, but that's just amazing! Discovering new techniques is what I love! And these cards are so pretty and thank you for telling us how you made it, love it!

Beautiful card and pendant. I always love to see other ways to use creativity and you have so much detail! I have enjoyed the hop and look forward to the rest of the week. Thanks for being a part of the hop.

Here's that lovely stamp again, but what a completely different look you have given it. Love the soft "smokiness" of it all. I have never used black with other colours when playing with my watercolour pencils - but I will now! And I like the idea of hightlighting with a white gel pen. Have so enjoyed this blog hop and have received so much inspiration. Thanks, Suzanne. Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.

Aren't we lucky you chose the Large Flower Pattern for that card, as it is just beautiful. (I'll have to stop at SS&M for one of your classes one of these days, just don't get there much as it is a little bit of a drive).

A great ending to day one of the blog hop.Your floral card is beautiful and so different to the other two I have seen today. It really shows how versatile this stamp is (and how talented all the HA design team are).I love the pendant too, it's been great seeing the cards, but it's lovely to see something a bit different as well.Clare x

Simply AMAZING projects, as always, Sue! Your work with the large flower design block is incredible! I love the smokiness you achieved here, and the white gel pen is the perfect touch! Simply genius. And the charm is beautiful, too! So delicate and feminine looking... WOW. Thank you for including the directions of the projects, too! I'm honored to be part of this hop with you! Beautiful creations! :)

Hi Suzz! Your pendant is absolutely gorgeous!! Love the way this turned out. This is my first time blog hopping and now that I end with your's today - I'm almost wishing there was more. Love looking at all the amazing creations. I'll be back tomorrow for some more inspiration!!